Navy/USMC

The Defense Department on Friday released an updated version of its homeland defense strategy that emphasizes two core missions, defending the nation’s territory from direct attacks and supporting civil authorities. […]

A new sonar unit produced by Raytheon [RTN] will be deployed on an unmanned vessel procured by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of a program to […]

The F-35 strike fighter aircraft program will be subject to the same cuts as other defense programs under the budget sequester, the Defense Department’s Budget Chief told a House panel […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA], the two defense firms unsuccessful in their attempt to win the Navy’s recently completed competition to modernize the ship-based Aegis Combat System, say they do […]

Raytheon [RTN] has just delivered an eighth mobile X-band Army Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance system (AN/TPY-2) radar to the U.S. government, on the heels of a Defense Department announcement Friday […]

The Navy has ordered six of the latest Fire Scout unmanned helicopters that feature a larger airframe than those already deployed with the fleet are intended to fly and remain […]

The Navy is about a month away from releasing its request for proposals (RFP) for the aircraft carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle designed for surveillance and strike, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the […]

The Defense Department “radically” changed and improved how it designs, tests and delivers F-35 software increments, going from a rate of one increment every 30 days to every three days, […]

The head of the military’s Cyber Command yesterday disclosed that the Defense Department is in the process of creating and training its core set of teams that would operate in […]

Three Navy aviators were killed yesterday when an E/A-6B Prowler based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash, crashed. The aircraft assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129 went down […]